Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 26
“A good supper,” thought he; “how can that be, since all we ever have is millet and cornmeal?”
Who acts: good supper, we, that · What happens: think, have, be · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good supper, we, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 supper | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 supper | amod |
| 4 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 supper | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 supper | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 can | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 can | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 can | advmod |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 millet | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 millet | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 millet | punct |
| 16 | since | since | ADP | _ | 22 millet | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 millet | det |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 have | advmod |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 all | acl:relcl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 millet | cop |
| 22 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 can | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cornmeal | cc |
| 24 | cornmeal | cornmeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 millet | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 can | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | a good supper | son | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | we | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | that | since all millet and cornmeal | cornmeal conj | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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